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Temperate North America in general, but wanting from most of 

 region south of the Cohimbia River and west of Rocky Mountains; 

 north to Nova Scotia, southern Maine, New Hampshire, Ontario, 

 Manitoba (Fort DufFerin), Saskatchewan, and British Cohmibia; 

 west to and inchiding Rocky Mountains, in Montana, Idaho, Wj^oming, 

 Colorado, New Mexico (Rinconada, breeding), and Utah (Wahsatch 

 Mountains; Salt Lake Valley), and in Oregon and AVasliington to 

 the Pacific coast (accidentally^ to Farallon Islands, California); 

 breeding southward to northern Florida (Wacissa River) and along 

 Gulf coast to east-central Texas (Harris County); wintering from 

 Southern States (occasionally Middle States) southward to Bahamas, 

 Cuba, Isle of Pines, Grand Cayman, Anguilla (Lesser Antilles), Swan 

 Island (Caribbean Sea), and through eastern Mexico and Central 

 America to Panama (Boquete," Chiriqui) ; Bermudas (resident); 

 accidental in Europe (Heligoland). 



[Muscicapa] carolinensis Linn.eus, Sj^st. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 328 (Virginia; based 

 on The Cat Bird Cateshy , Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 66, pi. 66).— Boddaert, Tabl. 

 PI. Enl., 1783, 43.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 946.— Latham, Index Orn., 

 ii, 1790, 483. 



Turdus carolinensis Lichtenstein. Verz. Doubl., 1823, 38; Prois-Verz. Mex. Yog., 

 1830, 2.— D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 51. 



Orpheus carolinensis Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 88; Birds Am., ii, 1841, 195, pi. 

 140.— Bland, Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 287 (Bermudas).— 

 Martens, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 213 (Bermudas). — Jones, Naturalist in Ber- 

 muda, 1859, 27. 



M[imus] carolinensis Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 221; Hand-list, i, 1869, 262, no. 

 3840. 



Minius carolinensis J ARViNF.. Contr. Orn., 1848, 79 (Bermudas, resident). — Hurdis, 

 Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 5 (Bermudas). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1856. 294 (Cordova, Vera Cruz).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858. 

 346; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 254.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 

 I860, 307 (Cuba).— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 324 (Cuba).— Blakis- 

 TON, Ibis, 1862, 5 (Saskatchewan); 1863, 66 (Fort Carlton, British America) — 

 Hayden, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, xii, 1863, 163 (Missouri Valley). — Lord, 

 Proc. Roy. Art. Inst. Woolw., iv. 1864, 117 (British Columbia, east of Cascade 

 Mts.).— Cooper, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 73, 295 (Cojur d'Alene Mts., Montana).— 

 CouES, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1871, 19 (Fort Macon, North Carolina, resi- 

 dent); Check List, 1873, no. 9; 2d ed., 1882, no. 16; Birds Northwest. 1874, 8.— 

 Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 174 (Kansas; Colorado; Utah), 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1874, 49 (Dakota).— Maynard, Birds Florida, 1872, 

 19. — Trippe, in Coues's Birds Northwest, 1874, 228 (Colorado). — Brewster, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 18 (descr. young).— Loomis, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv. 1879, 210 (Chester Co., South Carolina, summer resident). — 

 Cory, Birds Bahama I.. 1880, 51.— Nehrling. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 

 1882, 7 (Houston. Texas, breeding). — Batchelder. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. 

 1882, 109 (Houlton. Maine, very rare, breeding).— Bicknell, Auk, i, 1884, 132 

 (notes; song period), — Townsend (C. H.), Auk, ii, 1885, 215 (Farallon 

 Islands, California, 1 spec, Sept. 3, 1884). 



M[irtrus] carolinensis Coues. Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884. 250. 



Mimius carolinensis Clifford, Trans. Ills. Agric. Soc. v. 1865. 925 (habits). 



